NOVEL NEXT Chapter 68
Yang Xing woke everyone up and followed Ziyan to the place she said, which was only a few hundred meters away from their original resting place, but because of the fog, it was difficult to find it from a distance of tens of meters.
Thanks to the presence of Ziyan, a professional assassin.
The place Ziyan was talking about was a large bush.
The bushes have obvious signs of being trampled on.
"Because there was no rain during this time, the traces left were more obvious. The stampede of this bush indicates that many people have walked here, at least twenty or thirty. Ziyan pointed to the land and said.
"Don't you still have traces of battle?" asked Yang Xing.
"The battlefield is ahead. Ziyan pointed to one end of the bushes.
Yang Xing walked over, his face sank.
Three corpses, with the school uniform of Ziyang Academy on them, and hundreds of beetle corpses.
"These are first-order ghost beetles, and their combat power is even weaker than the grass pythons we encountered before. Ziyan said.
"Could it be that these beetles attacked the training team? All of us can defeat those twenty or thirty grass pythons, just these hundreds of beetles. The people who have trained the squad are not trivial. Yang Lan said on the side.
You were able to defeat those grass pythons entirely because of Yang Xing commanding the battle, and at the same time, it had something to do with your particularly strong strength.
If it were a different team, it would be a lot of trouble.
Song Qian thought secretly in her heart, and said, "No! The ghost pattern beetle is a group of demonic beasts, and generally the smallest ghost pattern beetle swarm has thousands of them, and even more tens of thousands are possible.
And thousands of first-order ghost pattern beetles, not to mention the people of the training team. Even the powerhouses of the Wuhou Realm, or the Martial King Realm, did not dare to confront it head-on, so they could only retreat!"
Ziyan nodded: "And among a certain number of ghost pattern beetles, there will be second-order ghost pattern beetles." Therefore, adventurers are very afraid of ghost beetles, and they will definitely evacuate if they see them.
Ghost beetles, on the other hand, are scavengers and rarely attack living creatures unless someone attacks them first.
It stands to reason that the teachers of the training team shouldn't be unaware of this common sense, so this is very abnormal!"
"Ah Yan, just say what you found, and if you have any reliable information. "Yang Xing is far inferior to Ziyan in this regard.
Ziyan leaned down and sniffed on the ground: "I smelled a smell, it was the smell of the young eggs of the ghost beetle." "
"Ghost beetle eggs?" Zhang Kun also crawled on the ground and sniffed: "Why didn't I smell it." "
"After I found out, I searched around again. I saw traces of someone hiding on the branches of trees a few dozen meters away. And found this. Ziyan took out a piece of black cloth.
"Cloth, what does this mean?" Yang Lan was puzzled.
"The texture on this cloth is not like what Beiyan would use to make clothes, as well as the weaving technique, and the silk threads used are very different from those of Beiyanguo.
On the contrary, it is very similar to the costume of the Southern Wei Kingdom!" Ziyan's words were like dropping a stone on the surface of a calm lake.
The Northern Yan Kingdom and the Southern Wei Kingdom were enemy states, although there may be traders who peddle their wares in private.
But something as low-interest as clothes cannot appear in a foreign land.
And it's in a place like the Ghost Swallow Fog Forest.
At the same time, this is also the place where the training teams of the two academies disappeared.
This has to be said, very suspicious!
"Why did the people of the Southern Wei Kingdom appear here?" Song Qian was startled.
Yang Xing looked at Ziyan: "You go on." "
Ziyan's expression was serious: "Based on these clues, I have a guess. "
She glanced around, closing her eyes as if the scene from four days ago was reappearing in front of her.
"It is impossible for the teachers of the training teams of the two academies not to know about the ghost pattern beetle, it is impossible for them to take the initiative to attack the ghost pattern beetle, and it is impossible for the ghost pattern beetle to take the initiative to attack the experience team.
That means that there must be something in the middle that caused the battle between the two. If I'm not mistaken, it's the hatchlings of the ghost beetle I smelled just now!"
Ziyan opened her eyes suddenly: "Someone stole the young eggs of the ghost beetle and attracted the ghost beetle. Then the eggs of the ghost beetle were destroyed, and the juice produced by the destruction of the eggs was poured on the bodies of the members of the training teams of the two academies.
And the ghost beetle has a very sensitive sense of smell, so it treats the training team of the two academies as the one who steals its own eggs, and launches an attack on the training team of the two academies!
The culprits behind this scene are naturally the people of the Southern Wei Kingdom, and they have the reason and ability to do this!
If all the people in the training teams of the two academies were killed in the Ghost Yan Wusen, this would be a good record for the Southern Wei Kingdom. At the same time, it will also affect the reputation of the two colleges in North Yancheng. "
Hearing Ziyan's words, Song Qian and the others all felt a chill in their backs.
At the same time, he was also amazed by Ziyan's observation, and through this little clue, so many things could be deduced.
"Then why don't you just do it, it has to be so troublesome?" Zhang Kun asked innocently.
Ziyan didn't care, and replied directly: "There are more than fifty people in the training team of the two academies, and there are also teachers leading the team. Three Great Soul Masters, six Great Martial Artists, and a number of students with good strength.
It is impossible for the Southern Wei State to infiltrate the territory of the Northern Yan Kingdom on a large scale at this time without being discovered, so the number of people must not be large, and the strength will not be too strong.
If you fight hard, even if you win, you will suffer a lot of losses, and the gains outweigh the losses.
And the strategy I mentioned, except for the first few steps of finding the ghost beetle's nest and getting the eggs, which were a bit risky, the next step was basically to reap the benefits of the fisherman. "
Hearing Ziyan's answer, everyone nodded in agreement, this analysis is really in place.
"Sister Yan, you are too powerful!" Yang Lan looked at Ziyan with admiration.
Ziyan smiled: "It's nothing, my parents work like a city defense officer, so I often encounter some cases, and I naturally have a little more brain life after listening to it." "
"Wait!" Yang Xing suddenly shouted, his expression at the moment was also extremely grim.
Everyone's eyes fell on Yang Xing.
"If you say, Ah Yan, your speculation is correct. That means that there is now a mysterious team from the Southern Wei Kingdom, and it is very likely that it is in the Ghost Swallow Fog Forest!"
Yang Xing's words made Teacher Song Qian and the others feel cold behind their backs.
Ouyang Qingqing and the others subconsciously looked around, as if they had a feeling that others were peeping at them.
"It cannot be ruled out that they have not left the Ghost Swallow Fog Forest yet. Ziyan nodded seriously.
Rustle
At this moment, an inexplicable sound appeared around.
Ziyan's expression changed suddenly, she drew her dagger and put on a fighting posture.
"I'm sorry. It was my negligence, I didn't think they would keep anyone here. "